Gallery: Blake Edwards’ Most Fashionable Scenes

Legendary director Blake Edwards died yesterday. He is largely remembered for comedies that mixed slapstick comedy with highbrow sophistication like The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. And his leading ladies (and sometimes men) always looked smashing, even if they were smashing a pie into someone’s face. We still take style inspirations from some of these scenes:

When I was pre-pubescent I used to pray to get Fran Jeffries’ body because of that scene. I realize now that she’s wearing undergarments with enough structural integrety to double as building materials, but damn she looks good.